Word: metalled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...roadways they headed for their planes, where ground crews were already at work. Methodically they went down their take-off check lists (the long preflight checks had been done hours before, were done anew daily) and got ready to take off with a whine and a roar. Opening padlocked metal containers and black satchels, the combat crews checked the emergency war plans they had learned by heart in daily briefings in the U.S. and in Morocco, photographic and radar pictures of their preassigned targets in Russia, routes of approach and getaway, estimates of enemy defenses and radar capabilities, the latest...
...hemisphere producers are grumbling loudly. "I've always felt [the Americans] were fair-weather friends," said an official of the Canadian Metal Mining Association. "When the pinch is on-wham! Someone starts talking tariffs." Peruvians say that any tariff hike, no matter how small, will put most of the country's lead and zinc producers out of business, cost the country 14% of its export income...
...advantage of skimming the thin top of the atmosphere instead of plunging into it at a steep angle. Theoretically, it can be made to approach the atmosphere gradually in a gentle spiral. The skin will get hot, but if it is made of heat-resistant metal, it may not soften, and proper insulation may keep the interior cool enough for the animal to survive. The re-entry body of an ICBM can be made solider and stronger than an inhabited satellite, but it must hit the atmosphere suddenly, and even if it does not melt, the enormous forces of deceleration...
Most people think of fuel as something that gives off heat when the carbon in it combines with oxygen from the air. Chemists have wider horizons. A fuel means any combination of substances that reacts chemically with a release of energy. The ingredient that "burns" may be a metal or a compound containing a metal. The "oxydizer" may be oxygen-rich, or it may have no oxygen at all. The test is the yield of propulsive energy, which scientists measure as "specific impulse...
...BASIC-METALS SLUMP will cause American Metal Co., Ltd., one of the biggest international producers of lead, zinc, silver and copper, to merge with fast-growing Climax Molybdenum Co. American will swap $141.3 million worth of stock for Climax, merge it into new company called American Metal Climax, Inc. American Metal's nine-month earnings slipped to $8,579,062 from last year's $14,869,617, but Climax's net for same period rose to $11,443,953 from...